Sentence Patterns

Question 11 • FL-1001010-M/J Language Arts 1 A-CR

Which sentence is a run-on?

Answer

Sarah felt drowsy in school today she had trouble sleeping last night.

Although it chews up his belongings and barks a lot, Adam loves his new puppy.

The house needed to be cleaned before our guests arrived that afternoon.

We decided not to go to the beach yesterday because it looked like it was going to rain.

Explanation

A run-on sentence joins two complete thoughts without proper punctuation or a connecting word. In A, “Sarah felt drowsy in school today” and “she had trouble sleeping last night” are both complete thoughts, but they are joined without punctuation or a conjunction. The other choices are correctly structured sentences.

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